taken from an interview with british writer j.g. ballard in which he explains his motives for writing his novel crash.

Ballard's early novels, including his first, The Drowned World (1962), offer a view of the world beset by elemental catastrophe. His 1973 novel Crash was made into a controversial film by David Cronenberg in 1996. ballard is also famous for his novel the atrocity exhibition. Empire of the Sun (1984; filmed by Spielberg, 1987), a mainstream novel which is portentously autobiographical. A sequel, The Kindness of Women, appeared in 1991. another famous quote by ballard is: 'When you see the truth about human beings it's beneficial, but very challenging'